Musket/Reenactor Rant

My opinions on flintlock muskets and reenactors in general. lol

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[ChurchillCigar]

Is that a crack on the barrel tang of your Brown Bess ?

[murpheysmuskets]

@ChurchillCigar No, just looks like it because of the poor video quality.

[john4knecht]

In all fairness Murphy I agree with you that the large majority of reenactors do treat their guns pretty misserably. That being said not all of us do. I personlaly clean, pollish and maintain mine inside and out after every battle. At night when I bunk down I break it from stack and take it in my tent with me (because there is no bell of arms in civil war reenactin) and yeah the drama I must agree is obnoxious. I know I am the acception to the treatment of my guns but please imply most not all.

[murpheysmuskets]

@john4knecht I thought I did. I guess I'll have to use an annotation. But yes I did see a few clean guns but as you just stated it was the exception.

[Teleoceras]

You got that right! It is such a shame to see muzzleloaders mistreated in such a bad way. It made me cringe seeing the rust in the barrel on the middle musket. You've seen my girls, even the ones approaching 30 years old are in much better shape. Not only do I clean every gun right after I get home, but I also periodically check them to make sure rust isn't forming months later. They are a big investment and will continue to add to my shooting enjoyment as long as I take care of them.

[murpheysmuskets]

@Teleoceras Man I'm telling you that musket in the middle was nothing compared to some of the things I saw! And yeah then they wonder why their guns only work half the time. Have you ever been to a reenactment?

[bullriderfxxx]

this is so true, iv seen civil war reenactors 1861 springfields and enfield in such bad shape. i take great care for my 1861 springfield even tho their tiny bit rust on outside the barrel but the inside the barrel is very clean and rust free since i live fire shoot

[usmc123100]

@murpheysmuskets can you do a video where you take the brown bess apart and show how everything works that would be quite interesting

[HazMatMedia]

Bravo sir. As a reenactor I applaud and concur with your observations. The way in which some living historians could be obsessive over the stitching in their uniforms and then slack off on weapon maintenance drove me crazy. I was taught different.

[ChurchillCigar]

@murpheysmuskets Euro'pean reenactors seem to be more careful with their guns (maybe because they got only one) I've always seen people pouring boiling water in their musket after the battle (like the soldiers did). A veteran (grenadier of the Old Guard) of Napoleonic Wars, Jean-Roche Coignet, wrote in his memoirs that, on the battlefield, soldiers peeed in the barrel to clean it...

[whisperingdeath308]

Man Murphy you are so right, I refuse to reenact with a group in my area, because they have become so anal. They have taken all the fun out of reenacting! i have heard the same thing regarding the flintlock, but i think in large part it is because if you don't keep the frizzen in good shape and the flint sharp then that's where the problems occur.....

[MrDannysuzy]

do you have a buisness or website? what is it if you do

[TheMrsNogood]

SA-80's (sorry)

[TheMrsNogood]

Haha! You sound pissed off sir! I was in the British grenadiers guards. We were made to over clean our as-80,s for six hours one day in respirators whilst our sergeants lit CS gas tablets around us because some crow tried to put his rifle back in the armoury without cleaning it! Lol, great days!